Bold move telling Jalopnik that you bought a 7 seater for your family of 4 and it’s not a minivan.

That sounds entirely worth it.

Used ones are under $30k now. I was completely sold on getting one until the latest recall that requires Jim-Bob down at your local Ford dealership cracking open the battery pack and replacing the contactors. No way I’m taking a chance on that battery pack ever again.

I’m not truly free unless thousands of children are dying.

Putting a small block into a car that came with a small block isn’t an engine swap, it’s playing with LEGO.

Right to Repair is vital to consumers for keeping vehicles on the road longer. Without it, cars become throwaway one-time-use items as dealers will be able to charge far more than the value of the vehicle for otherwise menial repairs.

Did you seriously copy-paste a Google “people also ask”? I linked you to actual users reporting actual costs.

No one said anything about standardization across manufacturers, just that aftermarket supplier will make generic replacements.

Terrible take. The retail cost of a dealership installing batteries has almost no bearing on the actual cost of replacing a battery now, which is completely disconnected from what the world will look like in 15-20 years.

The market will provide them as demand comes. I can get a bunch of different brand laptop batteries for my 8 year old MacBook. Same idea.

This is the fear-mongering garbage that all of the anti-EV dummies reference every time the idea of battery wear comes up. You end up with a bunch of razor-sharp takes like this:

Yeah I loved when he started positioning his 23 year old daughter as a life, parenthood, and marriage expert.

Second, she says he purchased the EV6 for $72,000. EV6 pricing doesn’t reach that high, which also tells us that the dealer screwed him on the purchase and likely marked it up, especially given the timeframe that he purchased it in.

Like you said - all modern vehicles are heavily dependent on their onboard electronics. Honestly, replacing an electric car’s motor, drive unit, or battery will be infinitely simpler than a car’s engine. As will manufacturing replacement motors, drive units, and battery packs.

2016 Lincoln MKX, purchased as a factory CPO in 2019. After a year I started seeing an oil drip under the engine. Later a code popped up for the purge valve. They called me back and said it needed spark plugs, I declined. When I went to pick it up, the told me they went ahead and did spark plugs, and the oil drip was “…

What’s their margin on the Mach E? List price is what they think the market is willing to pay, it has nothing to do with how much it costs to make.

Man, some friends took me to the lake and let me try their standup. That is the only vehicle I’ve ever piloted that I was afraid to go full throttle. Part throttle was already SO FAST and I fell off SO MUCH.

That was probably the nail in the coffin of my MotorTrend+ subscription. Roadkill used to be awesome cool builds, but it ended up as nothing but, “Let’s purposely poorly plan a road trip and then change spark plugs and clean the carb in a hotel parking lot.” Every episode. Over and over again. Usually with a shitty…

I think Finnegan is amazingly down-to-earth and chill for someone that has achieved a level of success in cardom that few people outside of Top Gear hosts have.

They probably didn’t want to do a Highlander/Grand Highlander thing. Which is funny, because the Grand Highlander is a significantly different size than the Highlander.